Scottish children miss school regularly

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I tried everything to get my daughter to go to school

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Scottish government figures show nearly one in three pupils are persistently absent from school.

Psychologists say absence is not about bunking off but because many are too anxious to step through the school gates.

Since Covid many children are still struggling to attend full-time.

There are more than 700,000 pupils in Scotland and 31% of them were absent for 10% or more of the year .

"What we found is that missing an average of just 10 days aged 10 was linked to not having any qualifications age 42 or not being in employment. So missing that small amount of school in that time had a negative impact," he said. "This was irrespective of their socioeconomic background, irrespective of cognitive outcomes, irrespective of all the background characteristics. "Our assumption originally was that those from middle class backgrounds will be able to help their children catch up - but what we found is that irrespective of your background, absences have a negative impact on your educational achievement.".

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